Each with quarter-veneered top, one pedestal fitted as a plate warmer, the other with two shelves, each door carved with husk swags and anthemion
36 in. (91.5 cm.) high, 20 in. (51 cm.) wide, 19 in. (48 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

This elegant pair of dining room pedestals are evocative of virtuosity of the firm Ince and Mayhew. The use of stylized, often ebonized, husk swags are a conspicuous feature of a number of commissions in the later half of the 18th century. A similarly embellished pair of pedestals dating from circa 1780 were made for Sir James Lowther, 5th Bt. (later 1st Earl of Lonsdale) (1736-1802) for Whitehaven Castle, which was later remodelled by Robert Adam c.1766-75. They were subsequently in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, deaccessioned and sold Christie’s New York, 27 October 2015, lot 116 ($197,000). Another finely carved pair of pedestals, sold as part of a dining suite, attributed to Ince and Mayhew circa 1770-72 were supplied to Hon. Edward Bouverie (1738-1810) for Delapré Abbey, Northamptonshire. They were likewise later in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, deaccessioned and sold Christie’s London, 6 July 2017, lot 12 (£137,000).